# Aristias

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{{Short description|Ancient Greek playwright}}
'''Aristias '''  ({{langx|grc|Ἀριστίας}}), son of [Pratinas](/source/Pratinas), was a [dramatic poet](/source/Greek_literature) of [ancient Greece](/source/ancient_Greece) whose tomb [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)) saw at [Phlius](/source/Phlius), and whose [satyric dramas](/source/Satyr_play), with those of his father, were considered to be surpassed only by those of [Aeschylus](/source/Aeschylus).<ref>[Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), ''Description of Greece'' 2.13.5</ref> Aristias is mentioned in the life of [Sophocles](/source/Sophocles) as one of the poets with whom the latter contended. Besides two dramas, which were undoubtedly satyr plays, the ''[Keres](/source/Keres)'' (Κῆρες) and ''[Cyclops](/source/Cyclops)'', Aristias wrote three others, ''[Antaeus](/source/Antaeus)'', ''[Orpheus](/source/Orpheus)'', and ''[Atalante](/source/Atalanta)'', which may have been [tragedies](/source/Greek_tragedy).<ref>Comp. Athen. 15.686a</ref><ref>[Julius Pollux](/source/Julius_Pollux) ''Onomasticon'' (Ὀνομαστικόν), 7.31</ref><ref>[Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker](/source/Friedrich_Gottlieb_Welcker), ''Die griechischen Tragödien mit Rücksicht auf den epischen Zyklus geordnet'', (1864), p. 966</ref>

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Category:Ancient Phliasians
Category:Ancient Greek tragic poets
Category:5th-century BC Greek poets

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